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Opened 2017 — 1324 Minnich Road, New Haven
The founding: When Snickerz closed, Fort Wayne was left without a weekly comedy room, and the gap was filled by a working comic rather than a promoter. Michael Moses, who had begun his own stand-up career in Fort Wayne in 2005 — a colleague signed him up for an open mic at Snickerz — spent years on the road, then opened the Fort Wayne Comedy Club in 2017 inside 469 Sports and Spirits at 1324 Minnich Road in New Haven, saying plainly that he opened it because Snickerz had recently closed and no room in the area was offering weekly shows. The club runs a weekly show on Saturdays in an intimate room seating up to ninety, mixing road headliners with regional acts; the club's own description stresses that there is no minimum purchase beyond the ticket. Moses also owns Mozark Promotions and the booking concern Mike Moses Presents, which brings touring performers into Fort Wayne beyond the club's own stage.
Its place in the record: The Fort Wayne Comedy Club is the documented bridge between the Snickerz era and the present scene: founded by a Snickerz open-mic product, in direct response to Snickerz's closing, and still the source the record quotes for Snickerz's own history. Its weekly cadence, rather than any single headliner, is its significance — it restored the standing Saturday-night room that the city had had since 1984 and briefly lost.
Sources:
- Input Fort Wayne, "The Fort Wayne Comedy Club: Bringing laughs to Allen County" (April 5, 2023) — Michael Moses, the 2017 opening inside 469 Sports and Spirits, the reason (Snickerz recently closed; no weekly shows elsewhere), the Saturday schedule and ninety seats, Moses's 2005 start at a Snickerz open mic, and Mozark Promotions / Mike Moses Presents.
- Fort Wayne Comedy Club, the club's own description (fortwaynecomedyclub.com) — established 2017, locally owned, the intimate room, and no minimum purchase requirement.
- Fort Wayne Magazine (April 2023), comedy-club listings — the Fort Wayne Comedy Club at 1324 Minnich Road, New Haven, among the city's standing rooms.